The Center for Aging and Policy Studies (CAPS) is a three-university consortium in Upstate New York with Syracuse University, Cornell University, and University at Albany. CAPS is a catalyst for innovative, high impact, policy-relevant research. It has a long record of grant funding from the National Institute on Aging (NIA) as part of NIA’s Demography and Economics of Aging Program. In addition, CAPS affiliates receive grant funding from NIA and other agencies to support their research aimed at improving the health, wellbeing, and independence of midlife and older adults.
Research at CAPS addresses some of today’s most pressing issues facing midlife and older adults and the families that care for them, with a focus on the policies and places that shape those issues. Our research is organized around two signature and three cross-cutting research themes that address those increasingly pressing issues and align with NIA priority areas. The two signature themes of CAPS are health and well-being and family and intergenerational supports; the three cross-cutting themes are the role of policy, importance of place, and circumstances of specific populations. CAPS affiliates have particularly deep expertise on the health of persons with disabilities and rural and socioeconomically disadvantaged populations.
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CAPS Fall Conference
Oct 29, 2026 at 12:00 PM
CAPS Seminar: Hope Harvey
Nov 13, 2026 at 12:00 PM
Policy Roundtable on Long-term Care Policy in the US
Dec 04, 2026 at 12:00 PM
Featured Publication
Merril Silverstein, Woosang Hwang, Joonsik Yoon, Wenchang Zhang, Jeung Hyun Kim, Kent Jason Cheng, and Maria Teresa Brown. 2026. “Transmission of Religiosity Across Generations: Historical, Cohort, and Relational Dynamics.” Sociology of Religion, sraf029. https://doi.org/10.1093/socrel/sraf029
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Lerner Center/CAPS Briefs
Disability Rates Among South Asian Immigrants in the U.S. Vary by Country of Origin
Sobia Mushtaq and Marc A. Garcia
How Do State Labor Policies Impact Disability for Latino Adults in the U.S.?
Marc A. Garcia, Blakelee Kemp, and Erin Bisesti
Pandemic Mask Mandates and Closures Were Linked to Increased Gun Violence
Douglas A. Wolf, Emily W. Wiemers, Iliya Gutin, Jennifer Karas Montez, and Shannon M. Monnat
Latin American Refugees to the U.S. Experience More Discrimination than Refugees from other Regions
Sobia Mushtaq and Janet M. Wilmoth
Is AI Replacing Human Mental Health Professionals?
Michiko Ueda